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David
Burrows
Most
recently, in 2005, designs for two productions of Alistair Beaton's Feelgood
for the English Theatres in Vienna and Frankfurt directed by Phil Young.
In 2003 he designed The Tunnel of Obsession
by Ernesto Sábato
for Contemporary Stage Company at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon in November,
and a production of The Dinner by Leah Vitali,
directed by Alkis Kritikos, which opened in February in Larnaka, Cyprus.
He has collaborated
with three principal directors for the last ten years: Phil Young, Alkis
Kritikos and David Graham-Young. Productions with Phil Young include:
Crystal Clear (Wyndhams Theatre), Les
Miroirs Brisés (French Institute), The
Train Years (MOMI) Knickers (Lyric
Hammersmith), Blood Brothers (Heilbronn, Germany)
and Tonight: Lola Blau (Old Red Lion, Islington).
Work with Alkis Kritikos: Miss Julie (Sir Richard
Steel Theatre, London), The Collector (Portlands
Playhouse, London), the British première of Beckett's Rough
for Theatre 1 & 2 (Theatro Technis and national tour),
In Other Beasts the Best (Theatro Technis),
Tartuffe (National Theatre of Cyprus, Nicosia,
1997) and The Frog and the Lion Fairy (London
Greek schools tour, 1998)
David Graham-Young, director of Contemporary
Stage Company (CSC), is his most recent collaborator and he's designed
five productions for CSC since 2000: A Summer’s Day,
Ghosts, Mr Paul,
and The Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, all at
the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, and The Tunnel of Obsession
at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon.
Until recently (July 2009) he was Head of the School of Theatre at Wimbledon
School of Art, following his subject leadership of the Technical Arts
Interpretation and Design courses (1989 – 2002). Since validation
in 1989, and until 1994, he was also course leader of the UK's first MA
course in Theatre Design/Scenography at Wimbledon.
A comprehensive CV, production photographs, costume designs and press
reviews can be found on his website at: http://www.davidburrows.com
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